Reply #15: Theft from an FFL is a Federal offense... [View All]

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punishable by up to 5 years in prison.

Selling or disposing of stolen firearms carries an even stiffer penalty...

. STOLEN FIREARM, AMMUNITION OR EXPLOSIVE:
18 USC § 922(j). Prohibits the receipt, possession, concealment, storage, bartering, selling, or disposing of stolen firearms and ammunition
knowing or having reason to believe the firearm or ammunition is stolen. Punishable by up to 10 years.
18 USC § 922(u). Prohibits stealing or unlawfully taking away firearms from the business inventory of a Federal firearms licensee.
Punishable by up to 5 years.
18 USC § 924 (l) Prohibits stealing a firearm which has moved in commerce. Punishable by up to 10 years.

The punks could have easily been charged with 14 separate counts on any of the charges and sentenced to some serious time.

They should have gotten 10-20 years minimum; and that's in federal prison where time sentenced usually means time served.

(In before some hand-wringing sob-sister jumps in weeping about incarceration rates in this country and/or being supportive of the privatization
of prisons for corporate dollars).

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